# Comic interview montages **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-books-manga\ **Created:** [May 13, 2021, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-interview-montages/941955 "2021-05-13T01:43:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-interview-montages/941955/1 "2021-05-13T01:43:07Z")
I have been binge-reading comic back-issues lately and noticed three similar job interview montages. The first is from _Wolverine and the X-men_ volume 1 issue 19 (December 2012), the second from _West Coast Avengers_ volume 3 issue 1 (October 2018), and the third from _Deadpool_ volume 8 issue 10 (March 2021). The second and third come from the same writer, the first doesn’t. Now I’m wondering if there are more of these out there. (Actually, I’d guess that the chances are pretty good.) [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/hTa3Vc6.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/akj1jW0) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-interview-montages/941955/2 "2021-05-13T04:01:05Z")
The Legion of Super-Heroes were always interviewing new candidates. Even right off the bat, back in the 60s, it was great comic relief. Wasn’t one of them _Arm Fall Off Boy?_ He’d pop his arm off and wave it threateningly. There were a lot of LSH heroes yelling “NEXT!” At one point, a half dozen of the rejects formed the Legion of Substitute Heroes. “Heroes” like the woman whose powers only worked at night, and the kid who could make plants grow… and that’s it… ---
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It’s not in the **Order of the Stick** webcomic proper, but in the prequel book _On The Origin of PCs_ Roy interviews a long list of amusing candidates (“SPLURK!”), most of whom turn him down. ---
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Superhero auditions from “Mystery Men”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QXFR1L_gOg8/maxresdefault.jpg "Mystery Men (6/10) Movie CLIP - Superhero Auditions (1999) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXFR1L_gOg8) ---
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There are a lot of these. There’s an interview segment in **Deadpool 2**. “The Terror’s” villain association in the animated **The Tick** had an interview segment. In Fantastic Four # 177 (Dec 1976) The Frightful Four (The Wizard’s Villain gang) interviews new applicants at The Baxter Building (The Fantastic Four’s HQ): > [@](#): > > Their first interview s with a man calling himself Osprey who has no powers, furious at his fringe interest in super-villainy, the Wizard disposes of him with a anti-gravity disk which causes him to fly out. The Fantastic Four are told by Wizard that the anti-gravity disk will set Osprey down somewhere in the South Bronx. The Wizard then states on the intercom that anyone who doesn’t have superpowers doesn’t need to audition to be a possible member of the Frightful Four…or else. > > Their next inductee is a man calling himself the Texas Twister who has the power to control tornadoes. He explains that he got his powers when being exposed to radioactivity when he was swept up in a tornado that plowed through a nuclear power plant. When he learns that the Frightful Four doesn’t have a salary system, he rejects a position and walk out. > > Thundra passed herself off as an auditioner with the secret motive to try and free the captured Fantastic Four. However Thundra is easily taken out by one of the Trapster’s traps and is bound up with the FF. > > Their next inductee is a man calling himself is Captain Ultra, who exhibits super-strength and the power of flight. However, he proves to have a phobia to fire when the Wizard lights up a cigarette in front of him and passes out, leading to his rejection. _Captain Ultra_ is a hoot. He _really_ enjoys being a superbeing. Too much, in fact. I assumed his passing out when fire was near to be a dig at DC’s _Martian Manhunter_ > **[Fantastic Four Vol 1 177](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Fantastic_Four_Vol_1_177)** > > Featured Characters: Fantastic Four ⏴ Mister Fantastic ⏵ ⏴ Thing ⏵ ⏴  Invisible Girl ⏵ ⏴ Human Torch ⏵ Supporting Characters: ⏴ Impossible Man ⏵ ⏴ Thundra ⏵ ⏴ Tigra ⏵ Antagonists:...